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Post by primemcgee on Oct 6, 2021 17:57:21 GMT 1
The Kiss of the vampire Scream and Scream Again
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Post by Indiana Jones on Oct 7, 2021 16:47:38 GMT 1
Black comedy-crime drama about strippers on a road trip from Hell-actually it's Tampa. Close enough.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 7, 2021 17:37:02 GMT 1
DEVILS OF DARKNESS 1965 - A low budget UK film with no stars and I assume unusual for the time--a modern-set vampire movie. The lack of decent cast really drags it down--the guy playing the vampire is really miscast. He seems more suitable as a waiter at a fancy French restaurant.
In one scene these guys are talking (one is Dr Floyd from 2001 A Space Odyssey and the other is the head the Yavin rebellion in Star Wars). They are discussing witchcraft and the doctor says he made some notes on it--and he reads from some pages--and we get a glimpse of them--it's the script.
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE 1971 -- Not a good one-- but better than Devils of Darkness. The Karnstein vampires are different from the average movie vampire and closer to tradition since they can go out in sunlight and can only be killed by a stake or decapitation. Among the bad stuff here is Mike Raven--dubbed to sound like Christopher Lee. When that doesn't work they cut to close ups of Christopher Lee's eyes to make it seem more menacing.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 7, 2021 23:43:03 GMT 1
Pleasantville (1998).
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Oct 7, 2021 23:43:15 GMT 1
Some remarkable movies and suggestions being talked about. Good stuff.
I haven't seen many lately.
Since the first week of September, I've seen:
Kate (2021) Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) Cyborg (198... The JCVD one. Someone will know) Blackboard Jungle (1955) Christine (1983)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 0:17:35 GMT 1
Popped this in the blu ray player last night… You guys, this movie is so good! I think it might be on par with the MCU. Or better!
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Post by AQUA JAR!™ on Oct 8, 2021 0:33:06 GMT 1
Popped this in the blu ray player last night… You guys, this movie is so good! I think it might be on par with the MCU. Or better!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 0:40:14 GMT 1
Popped this in the blu ray player last night… You guys, this movie is so good! I think it might be on par with the MCU. Or better! TOBERMAN!
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 8, 2021 2:13:26 GMT 1
So, is he half Tobey Maguire and half Doberman or half Tobey Maguire and half Toblerone?
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 8, 2021 8:07:26 GMT 1
THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW 1971 - seen it before more than a few times. Spooky stuff.
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE 1971 -- Seen this before too. The director said Jason Robards became depressed when making it because he realized Herbert Lom had the starring role. It is believed the mask for the Erik ape man was a leftover from the 2001 Dawn of Man sequence. TROG 1970 is also believed to have made use of one of those masks.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 9, 2021 6:46:50 GMT 1
Watched a Night Gallery episode--the second episode There Aren't Anymore MacBanes has a creepy creature in it. Mark Hamill has a role as a messenger.
Satan's School For Girls 1973 -- I don't think I had seen it before--the sequence with Pamela Franklin taking the painting to the room is genuinely creepy. I don't think it is as creepy as Black Noon or some other tv movies of the time but it's a worthwhile time killer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2021 7:04:54 GMT 1
Poltergeist
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 10, 2021 9:06:31 GMT 1
Twins of Evil 1971
Hands of the Ripper 1971
Seen them before a few times.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 11, 2021 1:50:12 GMT 1
No Time to Die
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Oct 12, 2021 4:44:24 GMT 1
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One and Part Two (2021, dir. Chris Palmer). I was looking forward to this movie for a long time—and it’s extremely, remarkably disappointing. Almost nothing goes right in either part: The changes to Jeph Loeb’s story—a good, solid framework that would make for a great film—are inexplicable because they’re all to the worse. The characters are as flat as cardboard, the backgrounds are mostly dull (no grounding in the layout of Gotham), the performances (except for the late Naya Rivera’s as Catwoman) are poor, Harvey Dent’s transformation to Two-Face never convinces, the art has none of the depth or complexity of Tim Sale’s, the murderer’s identity is obvious, the character animation is static and ugly, the clues (of which Loeb supplied quite a few) are nonexistent, Batman does no detective work and comes off as a complete idiot, and we never once get a sense of a city racked by fear. Gah. This sucks. Reread the comic book instead.
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Oct 12, 2021 5:03:27 GMT 1
Popped this in the blu ray player last night… You guys, this movie is so good! I think it might be on par with the MCU. Or better! One of the best comic book movies. It's definitely better than at least 70% of the MCU filmography.
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Oct 12, 2021 5:04:49 GMT 1
I rewatched Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2018) in preparation for Halloween Kills.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 12, 2021 7:31:51 GMT 1
THE RAVEN 1963 (we have seen it before)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 3:45:04 GMT 1
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One and Part Two (2021, dir. Chris Palmer). I was looking forward to this movie for a long time—and it’s extremely, remarkably disappointing. Almost nothing goes right in either part: The changes to Jeph Loeb’s story—a good, solid framework that would make for a great film—are inexplicable because they’re all to the worse. The characters are as flat as cardboard, the backgrounds are mostly dull (no grounding in the layout of Gotham), the performances (except for the late Naya Rivera’s as Catwoman) are poor, Harvey Dent’s transformation to Two-Face never convinces, the art has none of the depth or complexity of Tim Sale’s, the murderer’s identity is obvious, the character animation is static and ugly, the clues (of which Loeb supplied quite a few) are nonexistent, Batman does no detective work and comes off as a complete idiot, and we never once get a sense of a city racked by fear. Gah. This sucks. Reread the comic book instead. Yeah nothing to sing about, thats for sure. I still havent seen the second part haha, maybe that says it all
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 3:46:09 GMT 1
Popped this in the blu ray player last night… You guys, this movie is so good! I think it might be on par with the MCU. Or better! The GOAT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 3:50:13 GMT 1
So, is he half Tobey Maguire and half Doberman or half Tobey Maguire and half Toblerone? Oh Pyramid Head from Silent Hill haha. Has anyone seen the second one? Any good?
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 13, 2021 7:31:01 GMT 1
Horror of the Black Museum 1959 Seen before. Good over the top Michael Gough performance.
Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism 1967 -- Seen this before too. It's a West German version of a Corman Poe movie crossed with some Barbara Steele Euro flick. The art direction is really good--the castle and the decorations inside. There's even a painted demon character that resembles a Giger design. Story-wise it is slim, not much for Christopher Lee to do, but the biggest negative is the unimpressive score. It may have Lex Barker (who gets out of a pendulum trap without assistance, nice work), but it sure could use some Les Baxter.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Oct 14, 2021 3:05:37 GMT 1
Woowee, finally got around to Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin). I don’t think this is exactly a good movie, but it’s lightyears better than the first two entries in the series, which I found boring in the extreme. This movie at least has a sense of humor and style, though those elements mostly come through in McLoughlin’s direction, not his script. Directorial humor, where a camera angle seems funny (!), is hard; the best example of it I know is René Clair’s And Then There Were None (’45), in which how Clair shows things is often funnier than what the characters are saying. More to the point, McLoughlin gets in a lot of clever and/or funny shots here, which is a genuine accomplishment. There’s this one shot of Jason appearing unexpectedly through a window that’s just great. Similarly, the opening credits sequence, with its Bond spoof, is a hoot. And the amusingly gothic opening, which borrows liberally from Ghost of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, is a delight, as is the scene in which a girl runs from Jason because “I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” Also pluses: no unscary daytime scenes of tree branches moving, the camp actually has kids there this time (why set these movies in a summer camp if you don’t want any summer campers?!), and a great Final Girl—funny, attractive, and infinitely spunkier than the male lead, who’s so wimpy he may as well be David Manners in the ’31 Dracula. (Actually, he kinda looks like Manners—was this another in-joke?) But (you knew this was coming, right?) the plot is the rain on McLoughlin’s parade of directorial niceties. In contrast to the shot choices and atmospherics, the plot is relentlessly generic and rather nonsensical: Loads of random people only pop up to get sliced and diced by the man in the hockey mask. The characters are all cardboard, and Jason—oh, what can I say about Jason? To me he always seems the least interesting of movie monsters, with none of Freddie Krueger’s chattiness, Michael Myers’s mystery, Hannibal Lecter’s trickiness, Dracula’s superficial sophistication, the Wolf Man’s sadness, or the Frankenstein Monster’s childlikeness. Here he’s basically a zombie, so to some degree his character’s only existing to kill kinda makes sense, but only existing to kill just isn’t that interesting to me. But I have no idea, with the character so famous, how to fix that. Anyway, Jason Lives is the best Friday the 13th movie I’ve seen—for what that’s worth.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 14, 2021 8:02:32 GMT 1
THE BLANCHEVILLE HORROR 1963 --is not about a village where everyone is named Blanche--that would be a horror-but this is more like a Corman Poe film done in black and white--it's something you can imagine Vincent Price in--but it's a euro gothic so the castles are real.
LADY FRANKENSTEIN 1971 --another rewatch--if Hammer had done a soft porn movie this is what it could be like. Joseph Cotten is Frankenstein and his daughter (Rosalba Neri) is also into making monsters--but her aim is to make the perfect husband by mixing someone's brain with another guy's body. It's kind of goofy but very watchable and interesting variation on the story. The main monster looks awful--like a BEM alien but with Peter Boyle's face. He's not putting on the Ritz.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Oct 14, 2021 23:13:28 GMT 1
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 15, 2021 1:48:43 GMT 1
That guy had 4 good reasons to scream.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Oct 15, 2021 1:56:40 GMT 1
That guy had 4 good reasons to scream. Perhaps 5 (or 7) IF they removed his fun part/s as well.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 15, 2021 2:44:51 GMT 1
He ends up a head on a shelf so who knows. I heard that scene with him cut up is in the book-The Disoriented Man--that's him---but they make it clear it's aliens.
When Michael Gothard is driving and tells the police woman to guess his name--just for fun--she goes...John...Richard......Michael?
And he smiles and says: "not today lady."
I wonder if that was an accident that she said it and he ad libbed the response and they kept it in.
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Post by primemcgee on Oct 15, 2021 6:41:47 GMT 1
Blood From the Mummy's Tomb 1971 (released exactly 50 years ago). Not really one of Hammer's best 70s efforts but the Mummy series is not that lively anyway. I paid more attention to the story in this viewing--I think Christopher Wicking (Scream and Scream Again writer) wanted to inject some intellectual content into these B movie subjects. It's only partly successful with the philosophical overhaul. But you do get to see Valerie Leon in underwear and eating a banana too.
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Oct 15, 2021 20:14:34 GMT 1
Last night I watched Halloween Kills.
I'd give it a 8/10
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